( Four minute read)

It’s not the Iron Curtain nor will it be the coming Trump dump that we should be worried about.

In the not so distant future it’s the Silicone Curtain that is potentially far more dangerous than climate change or nuclear war.

Why?

Because unlike Climate Change and a Nuclear war there’s no reverting Artificial Intelligence which we continue to confuse with human intelligence when in fact the two are totally different.

The day is fast approaching when we will be asking our personal oracle what to do, buy. With algorithms or not will they be ruling our lives, but how soon.

Computers are already running the Financial world.

It won’t be long before we are all subjected to an alien self learning intelligence (own ed by and control by god only knows who ) generating its own systems, feeding on synthetic data, from a metaphysical world.

We’re already relying on AI outside of our control taking initiative’s in shaping our societies, our history, our cultures.

Facebook alone has caused real problems.

Fanning the flames of splits with fake news between and in societies that are struggling to eradicate racism, ethnic tensions, inequality etc.

International institutions are being undermine by social media platforms giving rise to populist rhetoric and political instability.

We now have wars run by drones, and full scale ethnic cleansing, not just in the world of  illusion’s but in reality.

The thing to understand here is that algorithms are different when it comes to spreading news on social media as they are deciding what you see or hear. These algorithms are non transparent or accountably like the printed press or TV.

However they are supposed to be in the control of what ever platform use them. They are deciding what or what not to allowed on to the platform.

Therefore the algorithm is orientation is to attract more users to enhance its advertising revenues.

For me the responsibility lies with the engineering of the App ie the Code makers who should be held responsible under law for not modifying or changing the Apps capabilities.

The problem however is that they (the algorithm are self learning), like murder must be proven to be premeditated to guarantee for the death penalty.

Of course with our laws this is an impossibility.

Algorithms just like us can make decisions and decide actions on their own.

So should we give them legal status like companies, or other entities so they can be held accountable?

Yes!

The sooner the better before they split the world and all of us that live on it.

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We are already forced to grapple with some very deep issues/questions.

Religion have for centuries claimed non human sources for their holy books.

Artificial intelligence is capable of rewriting these books and creating new religions. In fact Ai will consume- all human creations as data and start to regurgitate new culture artefacts.

The next war will not be over how controls the air, the freshwater, the nuclear button or religious belief or even the arrival of Artificial Intelligence’s.

It will be the split between the technological world and not so advanced technology world.

We are at this moment inventing a sentient killing machine which will be impossible to find, alter or terminate. That will be able to totally mummify us all at will.

It’s now or never before history no longer has the connection of biological and cultural mix that we must interrogate algorithms to see that they have human values at their core.

All human comments appreciated. All like click and abuse chucked in the bin.

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